To show how far Antipope Francis is removed from the Roman Catholic Faith, there is an article claiming (with good reason) that the anti-clerical Deist and former US President Thomas Jefferson would have liked Frankie. And why shouldn't he? They have much in common, including their hatred of the True Catholic Church. Jefferson is rumored to have had Masonic connections, and it wouldn't surprise me if Bergoglio did as well. The article appears below with my comments in red.
According to authors Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg: "One way to put it, is that Pope Francis is a Jeffersonian. He spoke recently of those fellow human beings who stood about as far from Catholic doctrine as one could, the world’s nonbelievers, and he said he felt a close kinship to them: “Although not identifying themselves as followers of any religious tradition, [they] are nonetheless searching for truth, goodness and beauty, the truth, goodness and beauty of God. They are our valued allies in the commitment to defending human dignity, in building peaceful coexistence between peoples and in safeguarding and caring for creation.” In his Notes on Virginia, in the 1780s, Thomas Jefferson conspicuously wrote that there was no harm in anyone proclaiming that “there are twenty gods, or no god.”
Yep, as Frankie just said in his recent interview, "There is no Catholic God." (which is OK because God knows there's no Pope since Frankie is not Catholic!)
Ultimately, it’s about Jesus. In his love for the downtrodden, in his openness toward those who think differently, Francis has returned to the Jesus of the Gospels, particularly the Book of Luke. Which is where Thomas Jefferson largely found the Jesus he liked, too, when, for his own personal amusement as a retired ex-president, he cut-and-pasted the four Gospels so as to translate the good book into a fairly rational, morally conscious, miracle-free zone. All the Jesus fit to print, Jefferson-style: He pasted everything back together in parallel columns, in the four languages of English, French, Latin and Greek.
Ultimately, it's about apostacy. Jefferson's book, which wanted to connect with the "historical Jesus," is itself a lie which divests the Bible and Our Lord of anything miraculous or Divine. Modernists teach that the "historical Christ" is different from the "Christ of Faith." CONDEMNED Proposition #29 on the Errors of the Modernists states, " It is permissible to grant that the Christ of history is far inferior to the Christ Who is the object of faith." (See Lamentabili Sane, Pope St. Pius X, July 3, 1907).
Ultimately, it’s about Jesus. In his love for the downtrodden, in his openness toward those who think differently, Francis has returned to the Jesus of the Gospels, particularly the Book of Luke. Which is where Thomas Jefferson largely found the Jesus he liked, too, when, for his own personal amusement as a retired ex-president, he cut-and-pasted the four Gospels so as to translate the good book into a fairly rational, morally conscious, miracle-free zone. All the Jesus fit to print, Jefferson-style: He pasted everything back together in parallel columns, in the four languages of English, French, Latin and Greek.
CONDEMNED:
11. Divine inspiration does not extend to all of Sacred Scriptures so that it renders its parts, each and every one, free from every error.
12. If he wishes to apply himself usefully to Biblical studies, the exegete must first put aside all preconceived opinions about the supernatural origin of Sacred Scripture and interpret it the same as any other merely human document.
13. The Evangelists themselves, as well as the Christians of the second and third generation, artificially arranged the evangelical parables. In such a way they explained the scanty fruit of the preaching of Christ among the Jews.
14. In many narrations the Evangelists recorded, not so much things that are true, as things which, even though false, they judged to be more profitable for their readers.
15. Until the time the canon was defined and constituted, the Gospels were increased by additions and corrections. Therefore there remained in them only a faint and uncertain trace of the doctrine of Christ (Ibid)
Jefferson tinkers, mixes and matches, and rearranges the text of his reframed Gospels, titling the whole, “The Life and Morals of Jesus.” Relying largely on the Books of Matthew and Luke, he emphasizes the ethical. Like Pope Francis, who refuses to disparage atheists, Jefferson preserved most of Luke 12 in his compilation, but notably deleted line 46, which threatens “unbelievers.” When he ran for president, he was hounded by conservatives for having written those words about “twenty gods, or no god,” and the even more “in your face” conclusion: “It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” Both Jefferson and Francis acknowledged that just believing something doesn’t make it right. Religion without humility is, to use another Jeffersonian turn of phrase, “tyranny over the mind.”
Frankie "refuses to disparage atheists" because Modernism leads to that very conclusion--atheism. After all, what's left when you've thrown out the Faith and replaced it with the mundane? Antipope Francis recently declared unemployment and loneliness to be the greatest evils! Not disbelief, not mortal sin; because this world is all there is and we must concern ourselves with the things of this world. I'd be more worried about the "damnation of the soul" than any "tyranny over the mind."
While Jefferson (surprise, surprise) had no position on LGBT activity, there is a larger point to be made about tolerance. Recently, Pope Francis told a Jesuit magazine – following up on his headline-grabbing embrace of homosexuals “of good will” – that “religion has the right to express its opinion … but God in creation has set us free.” For his part, Jefferson, America’s premier champion of the rights of conscience, wrote: “Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.”
To be opposed to certain sexual activity which goes against nature and God, is no more bigotry than opposition to murder. "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." (Thomas Mann)
Let’s get even more overtly political. When Jefferson lived, science was respected and multiculturalism was not seen – even by those politicians who protected the rich – as the polar opposite of that other litmus-test religion: American exceptionalism. Jefferson considered young America “the world’s best hope,” but he also imported the majority of his books from abroad. To respect those who aren’t exactly “like us,” to promote a sense of human community, is another of Francis’ Jeffersonian qualities. Yet before proceeding any further, we must underscore that Jefferson opposed religious hierarchy and identified most strongly with the liberal message of the Unitarians. More to the point, he decried those he called “pseudo-followers” of Jesus, rejecting all “vulgar ignorance of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms, & fabrications.”
CONDEMNED:
36. The Resurrection of the Savior is not properly a fact of the historical order. It is a fact of merely the supernatural order (neither demonstrated nor demonstrable) which the Christian conscience gradually derived from other facts.( Lamentabili Sane) Modernism, like Masonry and Deism, denounces the supernatural, and eschews anything miraculous, deeming it "fanaticism and fabrication."
“Christianity is primarily a religion of invitation, and not simply an invitation to adhere to certain beliefs,” reminds Father Jim Martin of America magazine, in reflecting on his periodical’s exclusive interview with Francis. Embracing historical progress, Pope Francis says: “Let us think of when slavery was accepted or the death penalty was allowed without any problem. So we grow in the understanding of the truth.” Francis wants to find a way forward. “In pastoral ministry, we must accompany people and we must heal their wounds.” Jefferson – while ignominiously far from progressive on slavery – applied a compatible vocabulary whenever he addressed the “moral sympathies” as an instrument of policy in a democratic republic. In the age of sensibility, the soul found its fulfillment in commitment to a moral cause outside the self. By the way, in making it a priority to “heal wounds” and lift spirits at once, isn’t the pope talking about Obamacare? Try reading the parable of the Good Samaritan, in Luke 10.
CONDEMNED:
53. The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable. Like human society, Christian society is subject to a perpetual evolution.
Obamacare? Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno taught: “[Socialism] is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.” (Emphasis mine)
“Woe unto you that are rich!” reads Luke 6:25, after proclaiming that the poor are blessed. “Ye cannot serve God and mammon”; and, we might add, ye cannot serve both God and the Koch brothers – the fattest of fat cats, who speak for today’s robber barons. Luke constantly attacks the greedy and self-indulgent, while Fox News is hard-pressed not to interpret Jesus’ message as class warfare. Francis chides “the cult of money,” as he calls it, and those who see economics in abstract terms, banishing the nameless, faceless poor from their thoughts. He’s talking to you, putative Catholic Paul Ryan, adorer of the atheist Ayn Rand. In the last publicly directed letter of his life, Jefferson wrote: “The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.” And all the while, our money says: In God We Trust.
I see, Paul Ryan is a "putative Catholic" but abortion loving, pro-sodomite Joe Biden is a paragon of Catholic Faith and Morals? Please. (Although the Vatican II sect does give him the "communion" cracker in his hand each week. And why denounce Ayn Rand because of atheism? Doesn't Frankie tell us not to disparage atheists, and that they can go to Heaven?
As House Republicans, with callous indifference, cut food stamp benefits and conspire to defund Obamacare to deny the sick, are they doing God’s work? “We have failed to introduce the blessing of work to able-bodied people,” pronounces Florida congressman Steve Southerland, a mortician by profession. “Work works” is his childishly simple motto, and he believes he is doing the right thing by going after food stamp recipients. “God created Adam, and placed him in the garden to work it,” he said recently. Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi responded: “You can’t just come to church and pray on Sunday, and go out and prey on people the rest of the week.”
Southerland may soon have to bury our American freedom under Chief Communist Obama. Pelosi? Doesn't she prey on the unborn? She's another "good member" of the Vatican II sect who was given the invalid communion cracker (along with Biden) by Frankie himself!
The pope drives around in his 1984 Renault, and demonstrates an unbanishable commitment to the poor. For his part, rather than sit in a lordly way in a chauffeured carriage, Jefferson rode to the Capitol astride his horse, unaccompanied, tying his steed to a post. As president, he famously dressed down, wearing old clothes while entertaining distinguished visitors at the president’s house in his bedroom slippers. We’re waiting for Pope Francis to deliver mass in jeans.
"Mass" in jeans? Sorry Frankie, the "punk priest" beat you to it (as did most of your "priests" who performed more outlandish things)! Christ told us that "The poor thou shalt always have with thee; but Me thou hast not always" (Matt. 26:11). With the destruction of the priesthood, True Mass and valid Communion, Christ's Real Presence has indeed been circumscribed and made unavailable in most of the world. With Him gone, exclusive preoccupation with things of this earth are all Frankie has left.
Thomas Jefferson and Jorge Begoglio (Francis) are indeed ideologically closer than most could ever imagine. Jefferson gave us separation of Church and State. Obama will destroy the latter, even as Bergoglio tries to let the gates of Hell prevail over the former. Christ will not permit this, as a small remnant shall ever remain. The Lord is faithful in His promises. Let us remain ever faithful to Him and reject completely the satanic sect of Antipope Francis.
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